Dino Abazović
Dino Abazović | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1972 |
| Occupation(s) | Sociologist, university professor |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Known for | Full Professor at the University of Sarajevo; research on religious nationalism and secularization |
Dino Abazović (born 1972) is a sociologist and holds the position of Full Professor at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Biography
Abazović completed his sociology degree at the Faculty of Political Science in Sarajevo in 1999, followed by a postgraduate qualification in 2005, with a specialization in the sociological aspects of religious nationalism. He achieved his doctoral degree in 2009, focusing on the dynamics of Bosnian Muslims amid secularization and desecularization. By 2012, he was appointed Centennial Professor and took leadership of the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty, where he instructs courses including World Religions, Religion and Conflict, Religion and Politics, as well as Sociology of Moralism.
In 2015, Abazović assumed the role of Co-Supervisor for the PhD Program at the Oxford Center for Mission Studies (collaborating with Middlesex University London) and also serves as External Examiner for the doctoral program within the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Salzburg. Additionally, he is a board member of the Contemporary Southeastern Europe Foundation based in Graz and contributes to the editorial board of the Odjek journal dedicated to arts and humanities.
He is among the founders of the Open University of Sarajevo. In 2017, he endorsed the Declaration on the Common Language concerning the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks, and Montenegrins.
Selected bibliography
- Za naciju i boga – Sociološko određenje religijskog nacionalizma, UNSA, Sarajevo 2006
- Religije sveta (co-authored with Jelena Radojković and Milan Vukmanović), Beogradski centar za ljudska prava, Belgrade 2007
- Religija u tranziciji: Eseji o religijskom i političkom, Rabic, Sarajevo 2010
- Bosanskohercegovački muslimani između sekularizacije i desekularizacije, Synopsis, Zagreb-Sarajevo 2012
- Kratki uvod u problem političke volje: Studija slučaja Bosne i Hercegovine, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Sarajevo 2015